Koen Quotes & Sayings

I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other. — Karleen Koen

In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that. — Karleen Koen

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes. — Carmen Martin Gaite

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. — Christopher Lasch

She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste. — Karleen Koen

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI. — Lisa Gardner

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive. — Karleen Koen

Happiness can be measured by each heartbeat. — Craig Smedley

Up and down our lives obedient
Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant,
Till those garden lives shall be
Fair with duties done for Thee;
And our thankful spirits say,
"Christ arose on Easter Day." — Phillips Brooks

What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike. — Karleen Koen

There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier. — Karleen Koen

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that. — Fanny Blankers-Koen

What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more! — Karleen Koen

He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began. — Kathleen Koen

Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve. — Karleen Koen

Nothing changes and everything does. — Karleen Koen

If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin. — Bat Masterson

Shut up, Kelsey, and just give Lissa a chance," Chloe snapped.
Kelsey mocked surprise. "Oh my God, Chloe can speak? I thought her mouth only worked for sucking dicks. It's a miracle. — Kody Keplinger

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. — Jo Nesbo

No fool can play chess, and only fools do. — Marc Lowrance

Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often. — Karleen Koen

I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way. — Siobhan Davis

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there. — Tyler Hilton

...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams. — Karleen Koen

Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way. — Karleen Koen

On island after island, Europeans and their pathogens killed the natives, slave ships appeared on the horizon, and cane sprouted in the fields. Streams of survivors crawled forth from slave ships to replenish the cane-field work gangs of men and women as they died. But enslavers grew fabulously rich. — Edward E. Baptist